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Hi Vinnie and Anna. Like Cassie Bjork, I am a registered dietitian (RD), and I also have a master's degree in nutritional science. I just wanted to set you straight that in order to maintain our RD credentials, We have to complete 75 hours of continuing education in nutrition every 5 years. The problem is not a lack of requirement for continuing education. It's that the continuing ed consists mostly of the same dogma we were fed in our undergrad dietetics program. Furthermore, much of the continuing ed is FREE! Yay, right?! No, because the FREE continuing ed is offered by Big Food. Sounds like a conflict of interest, eh? Right on, it is! How's this for fun food fodder – Coca-Cola provides free continuing ed to dietitians, and sneakily they go by the name "the Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness." Seriously?